By José Ramos and Jeanne Hoffman Pacifica Means Peace is a project dedicated to envisioning a future of peaceful coexistence between the USA, China, and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to explore the futures we collectively wish to avoid and those we aspire to create. …
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Pacifica Means Peace is a project that aims to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to engage the public in considering the futures that we want to avoid and that we want to create. There is …
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Every now and again I come across word conjunctions that stick in my mind and don’t let go. I live in the Victorian Central Highlands, the Goldfields region of Victoria, and in my EV conversion wanderings I came across a number of people who I began affectionately referring to as “solar punk hillbillies”. These people …
The experimentation podcast is an idea for a podcast series that interviews people in real labs from around the world, to find out what experimentation means for them. Labs are a worldwide phenomenon. They exist in many countries and for many purposes. They vary from labs that are dedicated to the hard sciences, to social …
Comment Pacifica Means Peace (PMP) is a project to use participatory futures methods to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China. Images of the future have the power to shape the imagination of the public and policymakers. As well, images of the future come with cognitive bias, for example a military think tank …
Over the past year I’ve been struggling with the future of FuturesLab. I started FuturesLab in 2015 as a new approach and strategy to getting ideas out of my head and allowing them to play within the field of collective social intelligence. The experience was amazing and life changing, leading me into new domains of …
Late last year I posted an idea for a commons hospitality network that Sharon Ede and I had discussed. It was just at the concept stage and we were just gauging interest and useful feedback. Then, a few weeks later, Eric Doriean visited me in Footscray to demo AnyShare for me – the new “build your own sharing platform” …
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Ever since being invited by the Commons Strategy Group to attend the Economics of the Commons conference in Berlin in 2013, I have been contemplating how the commons as a message and practice can be developed and extended. How can we encourage collective action and a ‘commons movement’ to better govern shared resources for the …
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This is an idea that Sharon Ede and I worked up earlier this year, but just posting now. The main idea of a Commons Hospitality Network is for an easy to implement and functional hospitality network that serves the purposes of: 1. lowering travel costs for commons activists and advocates 2. helps build relationships between people …
This post follows on from previous posts that have detailed the design of the commons game (and assumes some prior knowledge of the idea). The basic idea of the commons game is a social process that rewards people with credit when they produce a commoning act. Players can then use this credit in a ‘market’ …
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